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¹ KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Leuven, Belgium University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Respiratory Diseases, Leuven, Belgium.
² Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Dept of General Practice, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
⁴ Dept of Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Centre, Evangelismos Hospital, M. Simou and G.P. Livanos Laboratories, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Thorax Foundation, Athens, Greece.
⁵ University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Respiratory Diseases, Leuven, Belgium.
⁶ NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit of the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS foundation Trust and Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁷ ELEGI/Colt laboratory, UoE/MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁸ Astra Zeneca, Mölndal, Sweden.
⁹ KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Leuven, Belgium University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Respiratory Diseases, Leuven, Belgium Thierry.Troosters@med.kuleuven.be.

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Heleen Demeyer et al. Eur Respir J. 2016 May.

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. 2016 May;47(5):1565-8.

doi: 10.1183/13993003.01815-2015. Epub 2016 Feb 25.

¹ KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Leuven, Belgium University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Respiratory Diseases, Leuven, Belgium.
² Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Dept of General Practice, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
⁴ Dept of Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Centre, Evangelismos Hospital, M. Simou and G.P. Livanos Laboratories, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Thorax Foundation, Athens, Greece.
⁵ University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Respiratory Diseases, Leuven, Belgium.
⁶ NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit of the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS foundation Trust and Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁷ ELEGI/Colt laboratory, UoE/MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁸ Astra Zeneca, Mölndal, Sweden.
⁹ KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Leuven, Belgium University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Respiratory Diseases, Leuven, Belgium Thierry.Troosters@med.kuleuven.be.